“Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.”

— E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951, Tolerance

About E. M. Forster

1879 – 1970

English novelist, author of "A Room with a View" and "A Passage to India".

“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”

“Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it.”

“Poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.”

“Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.”

“At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life.”

“Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.”

“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”